Important Wordpress Plug-ins for Internet Marketers

April 27 2016

Written by Loren and from
Overblog

Wordpress is a household name in the IM world, so you should know about it. So many people who blog consider Wordpress to be the best Content Management System available. Naturally, that doesn't imply that it's only for the blogging community. Au contraire - it can be employed for any kind of site.

For internet marketers, Wordpress has found many uses including sales copy pages, affiliate blogs, review blogs, etc. That includes squeeze, or landing, pages and complete sales business websites. The platform is easy to customize and there are millions of different themes available for no cost. Beyond that, with the right plug-ins, you can make Wordpress perform however you want it to perform. Ok - we want to talk about several highly useful Wordpress plugins important to IM marketers.

The Google XML Sitemap - get it, install it, use it without fail. There are not many that are must-haves, but this one is absolutely one of them. If you're going to do SEO, then Google needs to crawl all of your pages - it uses the sitemap to do that. Depending on how often you update your site, add new content, then you'll want to create a new sitemap. If you try to do this long hand it becomes a time consuming ordeal. But it's no problem because your sitemap will update by itself whenever you add new content. SEO Friendly Images is a plugin you'll really want to have if your site requires heavy image use. We're sure you know the importance of performing SEO, or optimizing, the text content on your site. Well, you can, and should, do the same process for your images. SEO Friendly Images will speed-up your image SEO by assigning proper image alt tags and the title tags. This handy little plugin will sense if your image tags are not in place, then it will alert you and you can tell it what to use. So if you're going to use images heavily, then this will help save you some time.

If you want to keep that steady stream of traffic to your sites, the Landing Sites WP plugin is the way to go. Usually, when a visitor arrives (if they don't immediately leave) they'll take a quick look and check out a few links. The way it works is your visitors will see different links they may be interested to check out. It keeps them interested and clicking through your site.

Each time they click to another page is a new opportunity to develop some liking for your site. Naturally this is what every online marketer wants to have happen at their site.

Wordpress seems to definitely be the Content Management System of choice. The way it is being used is a testimonial to it: sales pages, video blogs, landing pages, affiliiate review sites, etc. As you know by now, it can be customized and its functions altered with plugins. There are a lot of applications and marketing uses in online marketing, so the flexibility is highly desirable. With these great plug-ins, Wordpress could be just the ticket!